Dyeing a Twisted Skein 3 Times for a Subtle Variegated Colorway - 2019 Chanukah Night 7
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
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VIDEO CONTENTS:
[0:00] Introduction
[2:54] the dyepot- 12 qt pot with 32 cups of water + 1/2 cup of white vinegar (ratio is ~2 T vinegar per 8 cups of water)
[3:25] The colors: 1% stock solutions Jacquard Fire Red, Dharma Espress Bean, & maybe dharma Pecan Brown or Jacquard chestnut
[4:31] Dyeing round 1: 1/2 cup of Jacquard Fire red 118 mL of dye. For 600 g of yarn
[6:33] After 10 min, add another 1/2 cup of dye. (removing the yarn first, then put the yarn back in the pot)
[9:35] untwisting the red yarn
[11:16] twisting the skeins for round 2
[13:34] Dyeing round 2:
Add 12 cups water + 1/4 cup vinegar to the exhausted dyebath
Espresso Bean 1/2 cup of the 1% stock solution
Add the retwisted skeins into the hot dyebath
[15:33] yarn mops!
[18:04] Untwisting round 2
[19:56] Dyeing round 3
Same dyebath
Add 1/4 cup (60 mL) of Dharma Dark Navy
[22:30] washing the yarn mops
[24:20] washing the yarn
[26:21] the finsished dry yarn
[29:04] miniskeins
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Reskein
Reskein
Reskein
It’s a whole new world when we reskein.
I I’ll now glaze my six skeins I dyed on 8/1/23 Due to your inspiration!
You area godsend!❤
When I took the mini out my first thought was it reminded me of a flannel shirt. Lovely!
I didn't even think of that!
I am nearly speechless with how much I love this yarn, but not quite. I have enough words left to say it is gorgeous and that I love it un-reskeined.
Wow, thank you, Sandi!
This is my absolute favorite dye session you've posted!
Thank you!
I am definitively going to try this with 6 large skeins of wool that I inherited from my Mother-in-law. Thank you Rebecca for explaining the process. It looks like so much fun!
You are so welcome! Have a lot of fun. I love love love this technique.
It reminds me of cranberries at different points of ripeness.
Happy Hannukah!
oooo I love this!
That sure turned-out beautiful; great job!
Have been wondering how to get lots of colour-blending over small-areas, so this twist-method was helpful!
(I love the more complicated mixture of colours in the re-skeined mini skein.)
Thank you so much for this video! I've been watching your channel for about a month. A couple weeks ago I started dyeing for the first time! I love it! You're such an inspiration to me!
A few days ago I dyed a braid of BFL roving red and it looks just like your yarn fresh out of the red dye. I really don't like it but I didn't know how to fix it. Now I do! I'm going to re-braid it and dye it again! I have a vision of reds, greens, and maybe some browns. I can't wait to get started! Thank you so much!
Payton, I'm so glad that I could help! I love dyeing braided roving myself. I love the way the colors interplay with one another. But you know what I haven't done? Braided the roving, let it dry, and then rebraid to dye again. Hmmmmmm.......
Great technique. I’ve never dyed yarn, but you make me want to try it. Great results!
That means I'm doing my job right. ;) Thank you!
You can also tie a slip knot in a section you want to preserve the colors in before applying the next color layer. It gives a different variation in the in patterning.
I love love love playing with resist. slip knots are a better idea than me cutting ties all the time.
These are absolutely gorgeous
Thank you, Darlene!
Very pretty. Interesting way to dye. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you! 😊 This is a favorite techinique of mine for sure.
Wow Rebecca, these turned out amazingly gorgeous! I wish I had all of them 😃
I love them, too! I was so proud of so many of these colorways that it was hard to break them into minis. BUT I'm so glad that people are getting to play with the colorways and see how they work up.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials I can't wait until next year. I missed out on getting them this year, but I'll most definitely be getting the full set next year 🙂
All are awesome❤
Okay finished the video and I think this is beautiful!
Thank you!
Absolutely beautifull!
Thank you!
Oh it's so lovely. I'm sitting here saying 'add blue, add blue' 'always add blue'. I like blue!
I love blue, too! In 2018 I did this technique with blue, red, and yellow for the limited edition colorway. :D
Stunning 😍
Opening this one was such a surprise! Gorgeous! I immediately wished I had enough for a pair of socks in just this colorway. (Might be incentive to get back to the dyepots....) I think I prefer the reskeined one, but I don't hate the other one.
I love this technique so much. It is fun and a surprise to layer the colors and to decide. A third round isn't always necessary.... but I tend to feel like the yarn is "incomplete" after round 2
Loved the yarn! I was hoping for the chestnut brown thought that would have been real pretty. Maybe I'll try it. Hey technique i learned when doing dry yarn i put in n don't touch. Let the yarn slowly soak up the dye until bath clears. Takes patience but worth it.
I love doing this kind of thing, too. I stuggle with the not-touching part, though. ;)
@@ChemKnitsTutorials ya it takes patience for sure
All I could think of through 0:30 was "cherry cordials". My maternal grandmother LOVED them and this reminded me of that.
Awe!
Love that color way that you have nowm
It's hard to go on sometimes!
I love this! Cannot wait to try it!
This technique is a lot of fun and is SUPER easy to scale up (or down)
ChemKnits Tutorials I tried it this weekend and I can really see using it often. Thanks again!!!
Love the colors
Thank you!
tip from the ranks. when I did cake decorating a tiny tiny bit of black with the red brought out the rightness of the reds.
Oooo awesome!
These are beautiful! I'm only halfway through the video and I think besides the yellow this might be my favorite one of the series!!!
I'm so glad that you like the yellow! Playing with yellow and orange in a sampler always make me nervous, but I'm SO THRILLED with the colors.
Hello Rebecca! Thanks do much for your video! It was very interesting and informative! I personally would not add the navy color just because it's cooler color then the other two previous ones. But that's my opinion. Over all the colorway turned out beautiful!
I always welcome different opinions!!! :D Thank you for watching!
Beautiful!
Thank you!
Beautiful red!❤️
Thank you!
oh i love the colour!!!
Thank you!
Beautiful
Thank you!
Pretty!!!
Thank you so much!
Thx for sharing
Thanks for watching!
I like the top mini best on the yarn mop minis and yes, I would have added the navy.
I've been trying some restraint lately. This would have been awesome with navy, too!
Sooty Santa!
And the minis could be Santa’s beard! 😂
Such a cute name idea!
Rebecca, in these cases when you need to handle the hot Hanks you might try a pair of the regular kitchen rubber gloves that are thicker than the ones you use to keep the dye off your hands, and the rubber ones go farther up your arms as well.
I plan on it. A lot of my content is prefilmed, so this was done a couple of months ago even though it was only published recently. ;)
Just a suggestion- One thing you might want to add to your dyeing tools is a pair of Barbecue Gloves. They’re insulated rubber gloves that make it much safer to handle the hot yarn if you have to remove it and re-add it to the pot. Love your videos!
OOOO Great idea! I really need a pair!
I'm an indie dyer. Without a doubt this is my favorite way to dye. Nope, not speckles. I'm weird.
You're not weird! I know a lot of people who don't like speckles at all. I love doing the twisted skeins, but now I'm feeling like it has been a while so I need to do it again!
So.....after watching your vids over the last year, I came to wondering one question! What do you do with all this yarn? I'd love to see future videos to see what the past yarns have become!!!!!!!!!
Great question! I really need to collect photos from people. I just shared a picture on Instagram of what one viewer made with her Chanukah sampler. (I'm @chemknits) I sell the majority of the yarn that I dye to help fund the materials for more videos.
So very pretty
Thank you!
@@ChemKnitsTutorials You're very welcome :)
How can I choose? They’re both gorgeous! I love that red...
This colorway made me so happy!
Not reskein! Love this method. 🥰🧶🐫🦙🐑🐐🧶🥰
Thank you so much!
I like the bottom one best
Thank you!
Wow it turned out to be so pretty! I love the colors! I saw in one of your comments that you sell some of the yarn that you dye, where can I buy it? 😍
My shop is chemknitscreations.etsy.com/ :D This particular yarn was in the 2019 Chanukah Sampler, but there is a lot of other yarn in the shop featured in my videos.
Like the top one with more red.
I love how these three colors layered on top of one another. I need to do this more often!
Hi Rebecca!! I'm binge watching your older videos and getting inspired!! Could you please define "crocking"? Is it color transfer? Thanks!
Crocking is the transfer of color from dry yarn when knitting or something. This is something that is super annoying and can happen for a variety of reasons. (The mostly likely reason is honestly skin chemistry/lotions.) it doesn't mean that the dye wasn't set well, although it COULD mean that I suppose if there was excess dye on the yarn that wasn't rinsed out. I hope this makes some sense
@@ChemKnitsTutorials sure does!! Thanks for taking the time to reply to me!
I love this colorway, I think it turned out beautifully!
I really enjoy your videos, but I would appreciate it if you could also do some with non-superwash yarn. I wonder, for example, how much handling I’d be able to do with some of your techniques and not get felted yarn. (If you can’t tell, I’m fairly new to dyeing yarn.).
Hi Beverly! I have many videos that feature non-superwash yarns and I often will handle them pretty similarly. Colors strike slower to non-superwash overall, so that is something to keep in mind when you're planning your colorway. There are a lot of superwash vs. non superwash videos on the channel. I absolutely plan to do more, though!
What kinds of techniques specifically are you interested in? I can try to go pull some videos that might feature non-superwash yarn. :D
@@ChemKnitsTutorials Thanks for the quick response, Rebecca. I especially loved the effects you got with the 3 dyebaths of different colors- I plan to try it! I’d also love anything on dyeing in an oven or a crockpot, since those methods strike me as less likely to cause felting. And, anything low immersion. I’ve subscribed, but tend to catch up in batches. If you can flag ones that are done with non-superwash, I’d be grateful.
I’ve been dyeing fabric with fiber reactive dyes for years, but acid dyes and yarn or a little bit different beast. However, it does help that I’m familiar with the common dye terminology and the chemistry. Your enthusiasm for dyeing is infectious, by the way!
Very cool technique!! Could you do this in the oven?? Would you need to heat the dye first do you think? Or just throw everything in the over for a half hour or so?
I don't really do any dyeing in my oven. I like to stir and check on things a lot and I've found the oven to just be more difficult for me to do that. However, a lot of dyers use proofing cabinets for dyeing so that is essentially an oven. :D
I like it better re-skeined. I love the colors but, would have chosen to put more of the red dye in. (Even more than the 2 times you added it) I love the brightness of the red so, I would have put in 1 1/2 to 2 cups from the get-go.
I think the more I play with this technique the more of a sense I'll get for proportions. It is so much different than thinking about how much dye for a whole skein!
Rebecca, I bet!! I’m not usually a red colored person (blues, turquoise, aqua is my colors) but, THAT particular red I’d GORGEOUS!!!!!
Oooo name shout out for meeee 😂😂😍😍😍😍
Lol!
I was just thinking (again!) if you were to do a mini with your skeins and then using your knitting machines to do a swatch and see how the colours have worked.
Unfortunately the gauge on the knitting machine is much too loose for a lot of the yarn that I dye. :( I would love to do swatches more often, but it would involve me untieing most skeins that I don't plan on using myself.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials oh, I see. I thought that the machine you had used to make the blanks before would have been able to do that, that was why I suggested dying a mini, or if that could be divided into even smaller amounts, along with the bigger hanks, then the full size skeins could be left intact. I can see how that would be awfully time consuming as well. Sorry I didnt think further about that before I made the comment. I do tend to jump the gun and send comments as they happen instead of waiting until the end. And I always hope that sometimes when I make a suggestion that it will spark an idea in that person's head, even if mine isn't suitable! I really enjoy watching you on UA-cam and your joy is so infectious, it's great! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and talent!
Hi Rebecca, If the third time the wool was not twisted and it was immersed in a paler color, would this color only dye the white part mostly? Love your videos!
Great question! In theory, if you dyed the last round a pastel color, it would be the most noticable on the lightest patches. (Ex - a tiny amount of yellow on this wouldn't shift the reds orange, but would dye the white areas a pale yellow.)
If I wanted a pastel color instead of white all over the yarn, I would dye that layer first. It is hard to get good coverage of a pastel in a warm dyebath that already has a lot of acid. I'd start cold with no acid, dye the pastel (then add acid and heat) and then start twisting the yarn to add color.
Nonreskein beautiful
Thank you so much!
Cann't we do directly on fabric?
Yes - if the fabric is made out of wool, silk, or another animal fiber. The other video you commended on used food coloring, but this one is commercial acid dyes from Dharma trading company. Jacquard is another company that sells acid dyes I like to use.
Reskeined, bcs it gives the user a better idea of how it will look done up. Usually prettier un-reskeined, but that's precisely the point: to avoid regret spending precious fiber dollars and woman hours to get an unsuitable result.
This is quite true. I like to be able to look at a whole skein as it was dyed because it can help me get a sense of the balance of colors and how big sections are etc. BUT it can be hard to visualize how the colors will look all together.
I think that if I were dyeing for my shop with regular colorways (which I don't do), I might reskein one of each colorway to have in the product photos. Or actually... if I was doing regular colorways then I might include swatches. I'm not planning on changing my business plan or anything, but I've given a lot of thought about running a shop and how I would do things differently if that were my primary focus.
I am surprised you haven’t felted your wool when you are boiling it and then stirring it. Has felting happened to you
I've been very very lucky. The worst felting I've ever had was from a non-superwash yarn and I was washing it over and over and over again. A little bit of movement in a pot won't cause felting, but a lot of heat + agitation will. I try to avoid drastic temperature changes (cold-hot isn't as risky as hot- cold. I always let things cool compeltely before washing)
What is re-skeining?
Re-skeining is when you take the yarn and wind it into a new skein. Since the circles are likely slightly different widths, it will re-order the way you see the yarn. Yarn as it was dyed often has larger patches of color, where as reskeined variegated yarn often looks a bit stripy in the skein. There is a lot of "debate" over which people prefer to see as shoppers etc.
ChemKnits Tutorials thanks! Then I prefer to see the yarn re-skeined, as it gives me a better idea of the color pattern that I’ll get when creating something with the yarn
This color way reminds me of an antique patriot American flag. Battle worn I guess
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
This one came out SO SO SO good!
@@ChemKnitsTutorials think this is 1. One to try and 2. A repeat colourway